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Crypto hack counts just set a record. The warning in TRM Labs’ latest data is where the money is actually being lost. In its H1 2026 crypto hack review, TRM Labs said attackers carried out 207 separate hacks in the first half of the year, the most the firm has recorded in any six-month period….

The US government just staged its seized crypto for an exchange, and it took an extra hop to get there. Wallets tied to the government moved about $288 million in seized bitcoin and ether onto Coinbase Prime over roughly half a day on Monday, blockchain data from Arkham shows. The ether went direct, while the…

Ripple has joined the Linux Foundation’s newly launched x402 Foundation as a premier member.  It is bringing XRP and its RLUSD stablecoin into an open-source initiative that is meant to standardize internet-native payments for AI agents and applications. The x402 Foundation will oversee the development of the x402 protocol, an open payment standard that enables…

Over the weekend, hackers stole more than $290 million in cryptocurrency from Kelp DAO, a protocol that allows users to earn yields on idle crypto investments.  By Monday, LayerZero, one of the projects affected by the hack, accused North Korea of carrying out the heist. The hack is now the largest crypto theft of the…

The SWIFT integration rumor  No adoption? There is a rather perennial debate regarding the real-world utility of the Ripple-linked XRP token, and it has just been reignited by a prominent community of a rival altcoin.  Zach Rynes, who is known as the Chainlink community lead, publicly declared that there is “no tangible adoption or meaningful…

Peter Schiff says the next major market crash will begin in the bond market, not in Bitcoin (BTC). The longtime gold proponent argues that rising U.S. Treasury yields, not crypto volatility, pose the real threat to global markets. On his latest podcast, Schiff warned that a breakdown in Treasuries could ripple through stocks, housing, and…